Speaking Heart To Heart

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

We aspire to no exclusivist, triumphalist, inquisitorial, or truculent “Catholicism.” We will continue to be ecumenical in spirit and aspiration, a meeting ground for Christians.

Letters to the Editor: April 1984

Ignoring the U.S.S.R... Are Roman Catholic Leaders Crazy?... Full Employment Is Hellish... Lowest Common Denominator... Bum Rap... Not Abused, Unfulfilled, Bored, or Exploited... more

Socrates on “Pot”

CLICHÉS QUESTIONED

Peter Kreeft

Here he is — the wonderful troublemaker, the gadfly of Athens who makes difficulties everywhere, especially where life is too easy for thought or thought too easy for honesty.

The Bell Ringer

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

Flannery O’Connor & the “Literary Temple”

A CHRIST WHO DISTURBS & TERRORIZES

Bruce L. Edwards Jr.

Relentlessly exposing human pride, avarice, and weakness, O'Connor agreed with C.S. Lewis that all things that are not eternal are eternally out of date.

And Are We Still to Know?

A POEM

Katherine Brown

Impressions of Nicaragua — Part I

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Recently I went with two of my sons to Nica­ragua, where we spent time visiting schools, hospitals, clinics, a number of Managua’s barrio homes, and those of other cities.

A Turning Point in History

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Back in the 1920s Pope Pius XI said, “The great scandal of the nineteenth century was that the Church lost the working class.”

Overkill

Edith Black

Biblical scholars may follow the first two steps of scientific procedure (formulation of hypothesis and accumulation of evidence) but cannot proceed to the third (verification).

Something More

James J. Thompson Jr.

At times Christian writers have entered that exclusive realm where profound insight into the wisdom of Christianity joins artistic merit to produce fiction of a higher order.

Milton on the Monday After Easter Break

A POEM

Linda Peavy

The Return of Socrates

John F. Maguire

One’s heart can be too hardened to participate in dialogue; today’s Hero­dian slaughter of the innocents involves something more than intellectual blindness.

Briefly Reviewed: April 1984

Statecraft as Soulcraft